Bestsellers

Suzanne Collins’ new Hunger Games novel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Scholastic) debuts at #1 on two print lists. (New York Times won’t list it individually; The Hunger Games is #1 this week on its Children’s Series list.)

The Locus Bestsellers for May include top titles Agency by William Gibson, Storm Cursed by Patricia Briggs, The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski, and Star Trek: Picard: The Last Best Hope by Una McCormack.

New titles by Cassandra Clare and Sarah J. Maas slip from the debut positions last week but still rank significantly. Again this week, the hourly-updated bestseller lists on Amazon sites, especially in the US and Canada, are overwhelmed by orders for children’s books.

The Locus Bestsellers for March include top titles Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin, and Star Wars: Master & Apprentice by Claudia Gray.

New titles by Cassandra Clare (Chain of Gold) and Sarah J. Maas (House of Earth and Blood) leap to the top of bestseller lists this week. Meanwhile, as schools shut down in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the hourly-updated bestseller lists on Amazon sites, especially in the US and Canada, are overwhelmed by orders for children’s books.

YA novels by Sarah J. Maas and Cassandra Clare, House of Earth and Blood (Bloomsbury) and Chain of Gold (McElderry) respectively, due for publication tomorrow, are bestsellers already on Amazon sites with preorders.

The Locus Bestsellers for February include top titles The Burning White by Brent Weeks (Orbit US); The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (DAW); The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski (Orbit US); and Forgotten Realms: Boundless by R.A. Salvatore (Harper Voyager US).

C.J. Cherryh’s Resurgence (DAW), the 20th title in her long-running Foreigner series, makes it onto this week’s USA Today list. This is the first Cherryh title to appear on any list compiled on these pages since they began in 2003.

Seven different individual titles and sets of fantasy novels by Andrzej Sapkowski rank on Amazon lists today, with The Witcher Boxed Set: Blood of Elves, The Time of Contempt, Baptism of Fire (Orbit) ranking #1 this morning at Amazon.ca.

The Locus Bestsellers for December include top titles Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing); Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson (Tor); To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager US); and Forgotten Realms: Boundless by R.A. Salvatore (Harper Voyager US).

Theaters remain closed. A few movies have been released on streaming services, but many have been scheduled for later release dates in anticipation of the reopening of theaters on a national level. So film reviewers Josh Pearce & Arley Sorg continue their coverage of select science fiction and fantasy series available on streaming services.

Several shows have put out new seasons, such as 12 Monkeys on Hulu and Kingdom on ...Read More

Past Features

Ann Leckie was born March 2, 1966 in Toledo OH and grew up in St. Louis MO. She attended Washington University, graduating with a degree in music. She has ‘‘worked as a waitress, a receptionist, a rodman on a land-surveying crew, and a recording engineer.’’

Leckie attended Clarion West in 2005, where she wrote first published SF story ‘‘Hesperia and Glory’’ (2006). Over a dozen stories have appeared since, including

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